MY TIME SPENT ON THE SUN by Brian Teasley (former Spree percussionist / Man Or Astro-man? drummer / Bottletree club owner) I must give an huge, vast thank you to my very good friends of The Polyphonic Spree for playing our most humble, little rock club here in Birmingham. I've been watching a few of the of the videos from the show and just can't believe the irony of being out of town recording in Chicago at the same time the band came through my hometown and having to miss the show. All ...

Michael Barnes (vocals) Jasen Rauch (guitars) Anthony Armstrong (guitar) Randy Armstrong (bass) Still riding the momentum of its huge-selling Grammy-nominated debut album End of Silence, Red returns with Innocence & Instinct, a provocative new album forged in a perfect storm of inspiration and catastrophe. From the literary spark of Dante's Inferno to the bloody aftermath of a 75-mph highway crash, Red absorbed a flood of ideas and emotions that empowered the band to create next gener...

"I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broadways i will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but found him not. The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?" -- Song of Solomon 3:2,3 Brighton, England's Bat For Lashes is set to release her highly-anticipated sophomore album, Two Suns, on April 6th , 2009. Two Suns is the follow-up to Natasha Khan's critically-acclaimed debut, Fur and Gold. Fur and Gold's...

"Interpol," the long-awaited, self-titled 4th studio album is out September 7th on Matador Records. From the highly melodic "Barricade" and "Lights" through the snarling "Memory Serves" and the extraordinary triptych of connected tracks that close the album, Interpol have never made work this emotionally resonant or packed with crescendos. Mixer Alan Moulder has brought the rhythm section back to the fore, anchoring a thicket of orchestral sound that brings to mind touchstones from black m...

The Grooveline Horns are an internationally known three man horn section that is highly sought after by some of the music industry's biggest names. They are Carlos Sosa (sax), Fernando Castillo (trumpet) and Reggie Watkins (trombone). A recent review of a Jason Mraz concert featuring Grooveline by the Kansas City Star noted that the "three-man horn section added invaluable heft and soulfulness" to Mraz's performance and compared the difference in the songs Mraz played with and without Groovel...